Barbara Amos

Barbara Amos is a visual artist whose projects have involved a variety of materials. She has completed 3 public art commissions, one each in steel, photography and paint. Her drawing and painting skills have culminated in a 25 year exhibition record across North America. Her first photographic commission spanned 48 feet of wall and was created with a handmade camera lens that references a kaleidoscope. Her most recent project has involved the use of social media to bring attention to environmental issues in southern Alberta. Recently she visited Germany to research architectural glass and was subsequently invited was for a 2 week residency. She has developed new media through awards, scholarships and residencies, in science centers as well as art galleries. Her work is in many private and corporate collections, including RBC Dominion Securities, Deloitte, and the US Library of Congress. Fragmentation and distortion occur frequently in her work, sometimes making a playful references to games and childhood toys, at other times forwarding a more serious comment on the changing world around us.

Biography

Barbara Amos grew up in Ontario, in the Port Credit area of Mississauga, and retains connections to her home town although she currently resides in Calgary, Alberta.

Barbara graduated from the University of Waterloo, and continued her studies at the Ontario College of Art and the Alberta College of Art. She has worked in various painting mediums, video and digital imagery and was recently awarded a grant to construct a prism that develops concepts of fragmentation. All of her work develops metaphors about a world that is being rearranged.

Barbara has been short listed on provincial and international public art competitions, and has recently completed a 90 foot work for Cardel Place in Calgary, Alberta. A recipient of grants and scholarships, she has also been active on the board of public galleries, national art associations and has assisted with the selection of programming and exhibitions for artist run centres and local art groups. She has taught through the Alberta College of Art and Red Deer College.

Her photography and accompanying realidoscope will be exhibited at the Telus Science Centre in the fall of 2008 and she will take part in the Banff Photography Festival titled ‘Exposure’ in 2008. Her photography has also been included in the 2008 edition of the American publication, ‘The Guild Sourcebook of Architectural and Interior Art’.